[Springframework-developer] Build infrastructure

[Alef A. <ale...@in...>]

I have spent the last couple of days installing a new build server, 
which is going to replace the build facilities we had up until now. 
Instead of having an environment that was shared with numerous other 
projects being built, we'll now have a dedicated server on which only 
Spring will be built. This means we can slowly start increasing the 
amount of tests we're doing as part of the build and possibly also add 
automated integration testing with different databases (possibly using 
VMWare instances or something). That's still a long way from where I am 
right now, but the new server is a start.

I'll probably be transmitting build reports over to the website 
(removing the need to have a look at the cruisecontrol instance 
mentioned in the build mails). Attached you'll find an example report 
(this report is of a build that has failed due to misconfiguration in 
the build infra last Monday). We can all change this, although it does 
require some XSLT hacking, which I'm not that fond of ;-).

I'll probably have both builds running side-by-side for a while until 
the new version is fully operational and doesn't have any issues anymore.

If there is questions or additional input here, please don't hesitate...

I'll keep you up-to-date.

regards,
Alef